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February 1, 2026

Orville Taylor | Women smarts in Parliament

Men who grew up close to their mothers and those in long term residential relationships have no problem with female leadership. Last week in Parliament, two women, each of whose name might relate to…
This October 2025 photo shows a portion of Belmont Academy in Westmoreland destroyed by Hurricane Melissa.
January 31, 2026

Editorial | Restoring education

While we commend the education ministry’s various initiatives to deliver education to children in Jamaica’s storm-ravaged regions, the government perhaps needs a broader strategy to head-off a…
January 31, 2026

Tony Deyal | Getting ready to rumble and tumble

For David E Bratt MD who believed “Trinidad being Trinidad, you cannot not have a jokey category,” and “The good: the Carnival spirit. So, little yet so the little means so much.” When it comes to…
January 31, 2026

Ronald Sanders | Education as economic policy: remedying the mismatch

When the door to migration narrows, the long-standing mismatch between education and economic absorption is no longer abstract; a country’s true immigration policy becomes domestic – how many jobs it…
Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Dana Morris Dixon.
January 30, 2026

Editorial | Beyond NaRRA’s CEO

As was recently promised by the information minister, Dana Morris Dixon, the government has advertised for a chief executive officer for the new agency that is to lead Jamaica’s reconstruction from…
President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Horizon Events Center in Clive, Iowa.
January 30, 2026

Peter Espeut | Setting a bad example

Much has been written about the negative precedents being set by Donald Trump in his second term as president of the United States of America (USA).
January 30, 2026

Kristen Gyles | Pretty privilege is real

It is very interesting how differently we treat people simply based on how they look. Here, I am not just using the word ‘we’ in a general sense. Every single person is guilty of some prejudice in…
AI is already shaping special education planning, personnel preparation and assessment. One example is the individualized education program, or IEP, the primary instrument for guiding which services a child receives. An IEP draws on a range of assessments
January 30, 2026

Seth King | Resource-strapped special educators turn to AI…often unaware of the risks

Funding is scarce and personnel shortages are pervasive in special education, leaving many schools struggling to hire qualified and willing practitioners. Amid these long-standing challenges, there is…
Delroy Chuck, minister of justice and constitutional affairs, notes that in the event of the death of the witnesses to a will – or if they can no longer be located – a will should be rewritten.
January 29, 2026

Editorial | New approach to jury law

The government was right to halt the parliamentary debate on amendments to the Jury Act given the several philosophical tensions inherent in some of the proposed changes. However, the administration…